Chapter 451: Siege
With smoke and dust billowing and yellow sand filling the sky, the army of the undead began its first tentative assault on the capital of the southern province with a wave of high walls, including 10,000 zombies and 10,000 skeletons. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
When the faster skeleton approached the capital of the southern province, a huge moat crossed in front of the undead, but this is not a difficult thing for the undead, after all, the moat is mostly stagnant water, so the undead who don't need to breathe directly ignore the moat and jump directly to move forward, and at the same time, because the undead are under the water, the dwarven bow and crossbow cannot kill the casualties on a large scale, not only because of the resistance of the water, but also because of the mud and sand stirred up by 10,000 skeletons, so that the dwarf crossbowmen can only shoot indiscriminately, anyway, the shot is not hit, it all depends on luck!
And then as the zombies arrived behind, it was another wave of dumplings-like zombies that fell, so the already muddy river water became even more turbid, and this is exactly the result that the undead wanted, after all, the probability of being shot in the turbid water is very low, and even if it is shot, it is probably not an important place, and it will not cause harm to the undead, not to mention that the undead will not bleed, nor do they need to breathe, so even if they are shot, it is useless, and the shooter still can't see where the undead are?
It can be said that the effect of the moat on the undead is equivalent to the enemy digging an excellent cover for themselves!
In the end, the dwarven crossbowmen can only recognize the reality, after all, they are not a casting city here, although the dwarves are good at forging, but now the undead are besieging them, so the supply of weapon consumption needs to rely on their own inventory, and unfortunately because the dwarven southern army and the invaders of the ancient humans in front of the war again, as a result, the two sides ended up fighting again because of the parity, and finally the front line supply was urgent, the rear city was not only emptied of troops, but also emptied of weapons and material reserves (there are war weapons production and maintenance factories on the front line)
If it weren't for the fact that this is the capital of the southern provinces, then the troops here would have to be exhausted, but even so, the city's city defense army plus the wounded soldiers of the city lord's guard and the southern army added up to more than 10,000 people, and as for the weapons, there are 20,000 cold weapons used by 20,000 people, including hammers, axes, knives, swords, shields, armor, helmets, combat boots, bows, crossbows, arrows, There are also 300 giant crossbows, 2,000 crossbow arrows (as big as a spear), and of course 50 catapults, and stone bullets do not have to worry, after all, the city is backed by an extremely huge mountain, so there is no problem in mining stone to make stone bullets.
Therefore, when the archers stop shooting, the undead will have to face another long-range attack weapon, although this guy is stupid and coarse, but its slaughter efficiency is significantly higher than that of crossbow arrows, because when the stone projectile falls, the huge impact of the undead even if it is only rubbed is mostly missing arms and legs are difficult to get on the slippery riverbank, as for the direct hit, hehe, unless it is an undead at the peak of the middle or an undead with silt under him, otherwise he will definitely die.
And in addition, this is a transcendent world, so the stone projectile is much heavier and larger than the version on the earth, plus there is a group of extraordinary warriors as bombardiers, the firing speed and power of these trebuchets are far superior to any similar on the earth, whether it is the Mongolian return cannon, or the European counterweight trebuchet is far inferior to him (here I have to say that China really does not attach too much importance to trebuchets, China has always preferred crossbow arrows, whether it is the Qin crossbow or the Han Dynasty's rhubarb crossbow, Zhuge repeater, or the Song Dynasty's divine arm crossbow or even the Ming Dynasty's three-eyed firebolt, China has always liked this kind of high-precision, powerful things, and does not like the catapult This kind of giant siege weapon, after all, it is too bulky)
With a whistling sound, a standard stone bullet weighing 3 tons fell directly like hail, and a stone bullet can kill several undead at once, and even a lucky stone bullet is enough to smash more than a dozen undead, but this still can't stop the undead from moving forward, because they don't have enough wisdom and are not afraid of death!
"Wow"
With a sound of breaking water, the first undead rushed onto the riverbank, but in response to him was a ruthless crossbow arrow, obviously the owner of this place was very unhappy with the arrival of the undead, and this crossbow arrow was also shot with great accuracy, directly taking the skeleton's life.
Then, the undead who followed also broke through the water, but they were all shot directly, all because the archers were dissatisfied with the undead who entered the water and did not exert their power, and as a result, as soon as these undead came ashore, they were naturally destroyed by the archers who were extremely strong and ready to attack like hunting.
This is not surprising, after all, there are not yet 100 undead ashore now! If such a number can break through the bows and arrows that the archers are ready to shoot, then the bronze helmet should consider directly assaulting the whole army!
Sure enough, as more and more undead came ashore behind, the archers could no longer suppress the undead's attack, and the undead successfully broke through the archers' resistance and rushed into the 150 meters in front of the city.
But obviously the 150-meter road is not easy to walk, because a large number of traps along the way are ambushed in the shadows, many undead are running and suddenly fall directly into the caves dug out by the dwarves, there are a lot of sharp objects in these caves, obviously used to kill people, but unfortunately for the undead this thing is useless, in addition to the undead team scattered and the unlucky to the home fell to death a few, the other fallen down also climbed up directly on their own, the skeleton is basically undamaged, and the zombies are inserted in those sharp objects to climb up, and the undead who did not fall down also directly bypassed, after all, the low-level undead have no wisdom and are not fake, but they still have this instinct to simply seek good fortune and avoid evil, after all, the undead are not rigid primary robots.
Moving on, this time there are more than 8,000 zombies left, and more than 9,000 skeletons left, obviously the catapult did cause a lot of casualties to the slower zombies, and more than 2,000 undead were left in that river, which is also thanks to the undead, for other races, such as ancient humans, even if 20,000 people are killed or injured, they may not be able to cross the moat, after all, they are not like the undead who do not need to breathe and are not afraid of being injured and directly cross the river at the bottom of the troubled water!
When the undead finally approached 100 meters below the city, the dwarves immediately began to unleash their most powerful defense weapons, the giant crossbows.
The crossbow arrows as large as spears make this weapon visible at a glance its lethality and penetration, especially for zombies, this thing is their nemesis, because after an arrow, although most of the zombies will not die if they are shot, but they will be skewered into a long crossbow arrow, and then these zombies will be wasted, after all, the IQ is insufficient, and several zombies that are strung together cannot move forward together in coordination with their hands and feet, and the final result is to fall together.
Therefore, the bronze helmet immediately ordered the zombies to disperse, and at the moment when the order was given, the first batch of crossbow arrows had also been fired, and in an instant, the popping sound of sharp objects piercing the flesh was endless!